Have you ever thought about taking children in need into your home, either adopting or fostering? If you never pursued it, what stopped you? Did you have some reservations? Today, this is a discussion from 2 foster dads, will try to debunk the common myths of foster care. Maybe you ask yourselves why would I do that? -- Well, let's ask what would happen if you didn't...

Friends, people are hurting! Period. Stop blaming and start loving! Other's pain ≠ your platform & agenda! Today, I choose to pray, I choose to cry, and I choose to love. Let us be love, let us be just like Jesus, and let us shut our mouths if we can't be loving and encouraging because that is what the world needs! (Listen to the audio version online).

When did it become ok to use every horrible situation to promote your views on guns or your prejudices against a people group? When did it become ok to point fingers at grieving parents who literally had to fight an alligator for the life of their 2 year old son and lost? — Friends, people are hurting! Period. Stop blaming and start loving!

Too often in the church ministries that focus on orphans, widows and various helps ministries are seen as side projects that we "will get to when we have time." But, Scripture shows us that these should be ministries in the forefront! Orphans and widows are in the time of their life where they most need people around them to love them, care for their needs, and show the love of Christ through their actions; if we were in the same state in life, wouldn't we want the same form others? Who cares for the state and agency case workers? Who ministers to the foster parents? What about the parents who got their children taken, or the children who age of the system? Who is caring for these forgotten individuals? -- That's where Jami Kaeb and the ministry The Forgotten Imitative comes in...

A quick podcast episode: For those who have known me longer, I, in my former years, have done some drama and theatre; I have had the privilege of performing this particular drama at various church camps, services for college age and adults, a number times. I was even approached by some national touring drama teams asking if I would teach them this and then use the material in their own services. That aside, written by Josh Harris, voiced by Josh Armstrong, and music accompaniment by the Irish Film Orchestra, "The Room" is a great drama / skit for ministry. We hope you enjoy it. We do not make any money off of this; we just hope it will be used for God's glory in ministry.